Its often said that "home is where your story begins..."

How very true that is. That where we all get our starts.

That where the original chapters of our story are written.

Whether they be good chapters or bad chapters,

our homes serve as the background and the settings.

Then we grow up, and most of us leave home.

We pursue new narratives and travel down different story lines.

We chase dreams, goals, ambitions, and create volumes of our story

set in entirely different locations.

We write and rewrite the passages of our lives.

We continually create and recreate the main character (ourselves).

We constantly change the supporting roles in our stories as our communities shift around us.

And occasionally, we forget how we started out. Who we were in the beginning of the story.

We lose sight of the story we originally meant to write.

And that's not necessarily bad.

Its ok to end up realizing that your story is going to look a little different than you had outlined.

But occasionally, we get "writer's block" in life.
We get lost or forget how to move ahead in our story.
We are unable to continue in our present narrative and are helpless to know how to change it.

And when this happens, I find it helpful to go back home. To go back to the very beginning, which really is 'a very good place to start.'

Because by going back to the beginning, you can see where you have been.

How you have changed. For good or for worse.

You can really consider what you have done and what you want to do.

Home is where our story begins. And begins over and over again.

Nothing puts your story in perspective like traveling back to its origins.

Home is where your story begins.

But, in part, I'm very thankful that our stories take us away from home.

Because then we wouldn't be able to appreciate the beauty of being able to return.

The wonder of being able to go back home.

To find yourself, once again, at the beginning.